Re: [PATCH] nicer eye candies for pack-objects

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

I like this, but like the "every second or every percent
whichever comes first" unpack-objects does even better.  How
about something like this on top of your patch?

Well... my concern is (if I'm right) that this status is generated 
remotely and sent over the network when performing a fetch.  The "every 
percent" might in this case generate quite some significant overhead if 
the pack is small.

But if the pack is small it won't matter. It's when it's big we want to 
know about it (and then the each-percent method is better, really).

Also (personal opinion) such progress numbers are harder to read when 
they change too fast.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but when I see numbers 
counting up with a percent-sign behind them I do some mental math to see 
how many brain-ticks go between each increment and then multiply with 
100 to see if I need to get a beer while waiting. I don't really care 
what number it shows if it flashes too fast to read.

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